by Maureen | May 17, 2021 | Personal
Tired of ZOOMing all the time? The combination of video meetings and working from home has not only blurred the line between our home and office lives, it’s created a new phenomenon called Virtual Meeting Fatigue (VMF). VMF is the feeling of exhaustion after attending...
by Maureen | Apr 22, 2021 | Personal
Let’s start with one of the scarier myths I’ve seen. MYTH: The CV19 vaccine can affect female fertility. FACT: The CV19 vaccine will not affect fertility. This vaccine enables the body to create “copies” of the spike protein found in the CV surface. The vaccine...
by Maureen | Mar 11, 2021 | Personal
I have a love-hate relationship with St. Patrick’s Day. Despite the dizzying number of free drink offers I receive, and all the people in the world who use St. Patrick’s Day as an excuse to get freshman-year-in-college drunk, what I love is that I can celebrate a...
by Maureen | Jan 8, 2021 | Personal
There were 111 COVID-related deaths on January 7th, 2021. My uncle was one of them. But this is not about COVID; this is about one man who made a difference in Long Beach, NY – the city by the sea. Anthony “Gigi” Perretta was the kind of man you didn’t forget. When...
by Maureen | Nov 20, 2020 | Personal
Thanksgiving is next week, officially marking the start of the holiday season. But everything is different this year. We’ll be smaller groups gathering, and along with the scent of crisp turkey slow cooking on the oven, is anxiety. Those of us with school-age...
